Everyone who saw her seems to agree:
1) The speech was pretty weak,
2) It's really hard to deliver an effective SOTU rebuttal,
3) We should give her a chance in other, less stacked contexts.
I particularly agree with Kevin Drum: She was trying to sound like Barack Obama, and failing miserably at it.
Given your vocal condemnation of prison conditions, I'm curious what you make of Sibelius's support for her son's "Don't Drop the Soap" boardgame.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/01/28/dont.drop.soap.ap/index.html
(MoJo blog definitely isn't laughing: http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/7040_the_prisonindus.html)